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{Spoken Intro}
G
My granddad never called himself a hero.
D
He was just another miner...
Em C
working ten-hour shifts where the sun never reached.
G D Em
I walked these tunnels hoping I'd understand his life.
I didn't.
C D
Because you can't understand a lifetime...
just by walking through the darkness.
C
You have to remember the men...
D
who stayed there."
{Solo}
G D Em C G. D Em D C
[Verso 1]
G
Before the break of morning,
D
Before the rooster cried,
My granddad walked that gravel road
With his dinner by his side.
G
Ten long hours underground,
D Em
Where the sun would never shine,
C
Swinging steel through walls of coal,
D G
Leaving daylight far behind.
[Pré-Refrão]
Em
Forty minutes of clean air...
Bm
Then you breathed the dust.
C
You learned real quick
D
To pray and trust.
[Refrão]
G
They kept the fires burning,
While they burned their lives away.
They dug the coal beneath our feet,
So we could face another day.
G
They gave their backs,
They gave their years.
D
Some came home...
Some disappeared.
Em
No statues stand to honor them,
C G
No headlines spoke their names.
Am
But every fire that's burning still...
D G
Remembers why they came.
{Solo}
G D Em C
[Verso 2]
G
The tunnels shook,
The roof would groan.
D
Every man knew
He might not make it home.
G
Heavy machines,
Broken stone.
D
One wrong step...
Another soul was gone.
G
Masks ran out
In forty minutes flat.
So they chewed tobacco
Just to fight it back.
Keeping their mouths from drying out,
D
Holding courage near.
Every shift beneath that mountain
C G
Could be their last down here.
[Ponte]
G
My granddad lived
D
Long beyond those mines.
Em
Never carried bitterness.
Only memories.
G
Sometimes he'd stop,
D
Bow his head.
C
Speaking softly
D G
Of the friends he'd lost instead.
Em
I walked those tunnels
Bm
Years too late.
C
Trying to carry
Just a little of his weight.
Am
I left with coal dust
Gm C
On my boots...
D
And a heart
Full of respect.
[Refrão]
G
They kept the fires burning,
D Em
While they burned their lives away.
C G
They dug the coal beneath our feet,
So we could face another day.
G
Now every train,
Every flame,
D
Every winter
Speaks their names.
C
Some men chase fortune.
Some men chase fame.
Mine went underground...
So the whole world stayed the same.
Outro
G
Forty minutes of clean air...
D Em
A lifetime full of pride.
He never asked for glory.
He just did what was right.
And every time
I hear a whistle blow...
I think about the men
Who never made it home.
G G D Em D C D C G